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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. THEODORE WALLIS, OF SOIPIO, NEW YORK.

FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,973, dated February24, 1880.

Application filed December 4, 1879.

To all whom may concern Be it known that I, THEODORE WALLIS, of Scipio,in the county of Cayuga and State of proved Frame, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved frame forpictures and other objects which is simple and ornamental.

The invention consists in a frame formed of colored glass, or of glasshaving colored paper attached to the rear side, which frame may have abacking of wood.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometrical perspectiveview of a frame Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same on theline :1; m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional elevation of the lowerpart of the frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A represent strips of glass, which have strips of colored paper, B B,or similar material,fastencd to the rear side by means of some adhesivematerial. These strips A A are cemented or fastened with some othersuitable adhesive material to wooden strips 0 O, of less width than theglass strips, so that the rabbet D is formed by the projecting glass, asis shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

With the strips thus obtained a frame is constructed as shown in Fig. 1,or in some V V manner. New York, have lnvented a new and Im- Instead ofmaking the frame from strips of glass colored by means of colored paperattached to the rear side, the frame may be cut out of a pane of glassprepared in the same manner. The picture can then be secured by means ofa paper or pasteboard backing, and

the wood backing can be dispensed with.

Instead of the glass colored by means of the colored paper attached tothe rear side of the same, any other kind of colored glass may be usedand frames made therefrom, as described above.

The paper attached to the rear side of the glass maybe plain orornamental, or the glass can be colored plain or ornamental;

I am aware that picture-frames have been made of glass, porcelain, andearthenware cemented together or on a foundation of wood; but

What I claim as new and of my invention is In a picture-frame, the glassstrips A and the narrower wooden strips 0, connected by an intermediatecemented paper strip, B, to form the rabbet D, as and for the purposedescribed.

THEODORE WALLIS.

Witnesses:

HORACE D. 000K, J. L. SoovrLL.

